2nd Mountain Division

The 2nd Mountain Division was a mountain infantry division of the German Wehrmacht that was active from October 1938 to 8 May 1945. The division was formed from the former Austrian Bundesheer's 6th Division, composed of Tyrolean mountain troops. The division was assigned to Army Group South during the Invasion of Poland in 1939, and it then took part in the 1940 Norwegian Campaign. In 1941, as a part of Mountain Corps Norway, it participated in Operation Silver Fox in Lapland, and it continued to serve in the Arctic region until late 1944, when it battled Soviet forces as it withdrew into Norway. In 1945, the division was transferred to the Saar-Moselle Triangle on the Western Front, and it finished the war in Wurttemberg, where it surrendered to the Western Allies.